Ex-cop, wife killed in murder-suicide

Toddler was at home at time of shooting, uninjured

San Francisco Examiner

HOLLY SPRINGS, N.C. — A former longtime BART officer and his wife are dead after an apparent murder-suicide in their North Carolina home Monday, authorities said.

Robert Seymore, 38, who retired in March of last year after nine years with the BART police force, and his wife Amber, also 38, were found fatally shot shortly after 9 a.m. in their suburban home near Raleigh, police there reported.

The couple’s 2-year-old child was in the home at the time of the shooting, police said, but was not injured. The bodies were found by the Amber Seymore’s mother, according to news reports. She had returned from dropping off the couple’s other two kids, 8 and 6 years old, at school.